Jo Wilmot
USA

Magic, fantasy, stories and color!

Welcome to my Artboja gallery!

My digitally collaged photo-artistry is made up of multiple photos pieced and layered together. Using camera and computer instead of canvas and paint, I enjoy telling stories of growth and enlightenment be it through birds flying, people swimming or in any way journeying forward. I usually include images of evolution like butterflies, wings and stars .

I bring together numerous unrelated images—blurred light, water, feathers, ink, fabrics, and fragments of ephemera—in order to create a distinctive depth, mood, and luminosity. Each piece tells a story, and each radiates a dreamy, ethereal quality—my own take on magical realism. Some pieces are scratched and written on, others have intense, bottomless color and glow with light and imagery. A figure or bird can morph into a flower or tree—a subtle message to viewers to look closely at everything along their daily path just in case certainty unravels and magic appears.

Some of my New York City pieces are in collaboration with my friend and photographer Barbara Aaron Frish @iphonecameragirl. She has provided me with wonderful photos from her travels and given me free rein to combine them with my own textures and photos for an entirely new outlook on the scenes. It's a bit of abstract realism!

Enjoy my interpretation of these classic artistic ideas through this modern digital medium.

This series of cityscapes is a collaboration with Barbara Aaron Frish whose work can be found on Instagram @ iphonecameragirl.
Her New York images near the Brooklyn Bridge are combined with my texture overlays to get that gritty city look and feel.

A collage of images in collaboration with Barbara Frish @iphonecameragirl. Her amazing eye for interesting angles can turn an ordinary scene in New York's Central Park into a special haven for contemplation. I combined them with my own textures and overlays for a modernistic less pastoral look .

A collage of images in collaboration with Barbara Frish @iphonecameragirl. Her eye for angles gives our image of New York and its bridges and trains, which I combine with my own textures and overlays for a graphic edge.

A collage of images in collaboration with Barbara Frish @iphonecameragirl. Her stunning images from the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art are combined with my textures and overlays resulting in this modern, graphic piece.

This series of cityscapes is a collaboration with Barbara Aaron Frish whose work can be found on Instagram @ iphonecameragirl.
Her New York images are combined with my texture overlays to get that gritty city look and feel.

A collage of images in collaboration with Barbara Frish @iphonecameragirl. Her image of the New York City skyline and an escalator from the Oculus at the train station near the Freedom Tower are combined with my textures and overlays for an interesting viewpoint.

A collage of images in collaboration with Barbara Frish @iphonecameragirl. Her amazing images from New York City include many interesting angles and reflections which I combine with my own textures and overlays.

A collage of images in collaboration with Barbara Frish @iphonecameragirl. Her photos catch the excitement of New York's of Times Square with its busy Broadway buzz. I combined them with my own textures and overlays to add even more hustle and bustle.

This series of cityscapes is a collaboration with Barbara Aaron Frish whose work can be found on Instagram @ iphonecameragirl. Her Paris images are combined with my texture overlays to get the City of Lights look and feel.

This series of cityscapes is a collaboration with Barbara Aaron Frish whose work can be found on Instagram @ iphonecameragirl. Her casual Paris street scenes are combined with my texture overlays to get that evocative Parisian feeling.

This series of cityscapes is a collaboration with Barbara Aaron Frish whose work can be found on Instagram @ iphonecameragirl. Her Images of Paris street scenes are combined with my texture overlays to get that soft, beautiful look and feel.

Inspired by an e.e. cummings poem: I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.